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During his period in Canada Sapir came into his own as the leading figure in linguistics in America.

Among his substantial publications from this period were his book on " Time Perspective in the Aboriginal American Culture " ( 1916 ), in which he laid out an approach to using historical linguistics to study the prehistory of Native American cultures.

Particularly important for establishing him in the field was his seminal book Language ( 1921 ), which was a layman's introduction to the discipline of linguistics as Sapir envisioned it.

He also participate in the formulation of a report to the American Anthropological Association regarding the standardization of orthographic principles for writing Indigenous languages.